At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build scalable Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automation.
- Company: Globally recognised FinTech with a focus on technical excellence.
- Benefits: Up to £95k salary, hybrid working, enhanced parental leave, and 25 days holiday.
- Other info: Flexible work model with team meet-ups in Reigate and excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a lasting impact in cloud engineering while developing your technical expertise.
- Qualifications: Experience in Azure, AKS, IaC tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Would you like to play a key role in the evolution of a modern Azure cloud platform within a globally recognised FinTech? This is an opportunity to take real ownership of cloud infrastructure, automation and platform engineering, working in an environment where technical excellence and continuous improvement are at the heart.
As a Senior Platform Engineer you'll design and build scalable, secure Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, creating reusable OpenTofu / Terraform modules, automating environment provisioning and driving best practices across development and production environments. Collaborating with engineering teams, you'll help improve platform reliability, performance and developer productivity while solving complex infrastructure challenges through automation and modern DevOps practices.
This role is ideal for a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer who enjoys staying close to the technology, investigating performance and operational issues, and influencing the future direction of the platform. If you're passionate about cloud engineering, infrastructure automation and building robust, scalable systems using the latest Azure technologies, you'll find plenty of opportunity to make a lasting impact while continuing to develop your technical expertise.
Location / WFH: There's a flexible work from home hybrid model, you'll join colleagues in the Reigate office twice a week for team meet-ups and stakeholder meetings with the other three days work from home (please note you must be within a one hour commute of Reigate).
About you:
- You have experience in a similar Platform Engineer role within an Azure environment with a strong knowledge of AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service).
- You have experience of working on complex enterprise systems.
- You have a good understanding of IaC principles and tools such as OpenTofu, Terraform and Pulumi.
- You have experience of building and improving CI/CD pipelines for product teams.
- You have experience with cloud observability (logging, tracing, metrics, monitoring and alerting).
- You have experience with Containerisation - Azure Container Apps preferred.
- You have strong scripting skills with PowerShell and / or C# .Net coding.
- You enjoy collaboratively problem solving to provide simple solutions to complex problems.
- You're comfortable in a senior role providing some mentoring.
What's in it for you:
- Up to £95k salary plus bonus.
- Hybrid working (3 days a week work from home).
- Enhanced parental leave.
- 25 days holiday (plus buy days and your birthday off).
- Pension (up to 10% contribution).
- Health Care and Life Assurance.
- Training and career development.
- Social events and a range of other perks.
Apply now to find out more about this Senior Platform Engineer (Azure IaC AKS SaaS) opportunity.
Senior Platform Engineer Azure - FinTech employer: Client Server
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